In The Lost Child (2015) Caryl Phillips weaves an intricate web of multiple stories that move in time from post-war Britain to the nineteenth century Yorkshire setting of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, which is here imaginatively reworked. In this novel, it is also possible to trace the influence of the Caribbean writer Jean Rhys and references to aspects of Phillips’s autobiography. The article discusses intertextuality in the novel and argues that literary refractions and the ensuing polyphony contribute to Phillips’s ongoing project of critically engaging with English cultural and literary heritage.

Exploring Literary Voices in Caryl Phillips's The Lost Child / Buonanno, Giovanna. - In: COMMONWEALTH ESSAYS AND STUDIES. - ISSN 2270-0633. - 40:1(2017), pp. 95-104.

Exploring Literary Voices in Caryl Phillips's The Lost Child

Buonanno, Giovanna
2017

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In The Lost Child (2015) Caryl Phillips weaves an intricate web of multiple stories that move in time from post-war Britain to the nineteenth century Yorkshire setting of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, which is here imaginatively reworked. In this novel, it is also possible to trace the influence of the Caribbean writer Jean Rhys and references to aspects of Phillips’s autobiography. The article discusses intertextuality in the novel and argues that literary refractions and the ensuing polyphony contribute to Phillips’s ongoing project of critically engaging with English cultural and literary heritage.
2017
40
1
95
104
Exploring Literary Voices in Caryl Phillips's The Lost Child / Buonanno, Giovanna. - In: COMMONWEALTH ESSAYS AND STUDIES. - ISSN 2270-0633. - 40:1(2017), pp. 95-104.
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